Leadership

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Negotiating Paths, Creepy Crawly Creatures and Things That Go Bump in the Night: The Cautionary Tale of a Fourth-Year Dean, University of Toledo Law Review (2010)

This essay on the perils and pleasures to be found on the path of a...

 

Domestic Violence

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Why Do You Do the Things You Do? Clemency for Battered Incarcerated Women, A Decade’s Review, American University Journal of Gender Social Policy and Law (2003)

This article examines the executive power of granting clemency, particularly in cases involving battered women...

 

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Dealing with the Nastiness: Mixing Feminism and Criminal Law in the Review of Cases of Battered Incarcerated Women—A Ten Year Reflection, Buffalo Criminal Law Review (2001)

In 1990, Ohio governor Richard Celeste granted clemency to twenty-eight incarcerated battered women. This article...

 

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What’s God Got to Do with It? Church and State Collaboration in the Subordination of Women and Domestic Violence, Rutgers Law Review (1999)

n this Article, Professor Ammons explores the role of Judeo-Christian institutions, ideology, and doctrine in...

 

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Discretionary Justice: A Legal and Policy Analysis of a Governor’s Use of the Clemency Power in the Cases of Incarcerated Battered Women, Journal of Law and Policy (1994)
 

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Mules, Madonnas, Babies, Bathwater, Racial Imagery and Stereotypes: The African-American Woman and the Battered Woman Syndrome, Wisconsin Law Review (1994)
 
Clemency: Post Conviction Relief for Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers, Defending Battered Women in Criminal Cases (1993)
 

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Parole: Post Conviction Relief for Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers, Defending Battered Women in Criminal Cases (1993)
 

Legal Education

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Commentary, Session 1: Deciding to Become a Dean, Seattle University Law Review (2008)

Deciding to become a dean is a difficult decision. How do you know when you...

 

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The Art and Science of Deaning: Lessons from my Garden, Leadership in Legal Education Symposium VIII, University of Toledo Law Review (2008)

Deaning, like gardening is both an art and a science. A new law school dean...

 

Women and the Law

Book Review (reviewing R. Colker, Pregnant Men, Practice, Theory and the Law (1994), Religious Studies Review (1996)
 

Libel

King Libel Suit Dismissed, The News Media and the Law (1986)
 

Journalism

Operation Fair Share, Black Enterprise (1984)
 
Crime News Reporting in a Black Weekly (with John Dimmick and Joseph J. Pilotta), Journalism Quarterly (1982)
 
Court Orders Complexion Change in Ohio Town, Encore American and Worldwide News (1980)
 
A Talk with Critic Donald Bogle, Encore American & Worldwide News (1980)
 
Business on the Banks of the Ohio, Black Enterprise (1980)
 
Ohio Busing Suit: Getting Desegregation Out of Limbo, Encore American and Worldwide News (1979)
 
Will Black Studies Survive?, Encore American and Worldwide News (1979)
 
Unequal Justice: Cleveland’s Other Default, Encore American and Worldwide News (1979)
 
Mt. Vernon Plaza Blight to Might, Black Enterprise (1978)
 
A Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession, Encore American and Worldwide News (1978)
 
Full Partnership for Black Land Grant Colleges, Encore American and Worldwide News (1978)
 
The Birmingham Bombing Case: Round One, Encore American and Worldwide News (1977)
 

Sexual Abuse of Children

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Final Report: Submitted to the Honorable Jack Markell, Governor, State of Delaware: Independent Review of the Earl Brian Bradley Case (2010)

This is the Final Report to the Governor's Office, the Senate Public Safety Committee, the...